Events in History
Event of Interest
Sep 1 Co-founder and CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey has his Twitter account hacked
Event of Interest
Sep 1 Exhibition on Christian Dior sets new attendance record of almost 595,000 in seven months on closing at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Sep 1 German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asks for Polish forgiveness for WWII at 80 year commemoration in Pilsudski Square, Warsaw
- Sep 1 Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on Elbow Cay in the Abaco islands, northern Bahamas as a category five storm with winds of 180mph (285km/h)
- Sep 1 Saudi-led coalition air strikes on Yemen city of Dhamar kills more than 100 people according to the Red Cross
Election of Interest
Sep 2 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson threatens a snap general election if rebel MPs pass bill against no-deal Brexit
- Sep 2 Diving boat catches fire at night killing 34 asleep on board off Santa Cruz Island, California
- Sep 2 Violence and looting directed at foreigners in Johannesburg results in five deaths and dozens arrested by South African police
- Sep 3 British PM Boris Johnson loses significant vote in parliament as MPs gain control of the timetable, orders whip withdrawn from 21 rebel Tory MPs
- Sep 3 Hurricane Dorian finally moves off Grand Bahama after stalling for more than a day bringing catastrophic devastation, killing at least 50 with over 2,000 people missing
Event of Interest
Sep 3 Unknown text by John Locke “Reasons for tolerateing Papists equally with others” (1667-68), an argument for religious toleration announced discovered at St John’s College, Annapolis
- Sep 3 Walmart says it will stop selling handguns and some ammunition and ask customers not to openly carry firearms in response to El Paso shootings
- Sep 4 British rebel alliance of MPs vote to ban a no-deal Brexit and reject PM Boris Johnson's call for a snap election
- Sep 4 Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam withdraws controversial extradition bill to China after three months of massive protests
- Sep 5 Erramatti Mangamma becomes the world's oldest living mother giving birth to twins aged 74 in Hyderabad, India
- Sep 5 New theory the Loss Ness monster may be a giant eel after DNA study reveals no plesiosaur or sturgeon DNA found
- Sep 5 South African women march on parliament to protest violence against women after a month when 30 were killed by their spouses
- Sep 7 Indian Space Agency loses contact with its Chandrayaan-2 moon lander just 2 km from landing on the Moon's surface
Event of Interest
Sep 7 US President Donald Trump says he has cancelled a secret meeting with the Taliban for peace talks at Camp David
- Sep 8 Brazil's Supreme Court rules Marvel comic depicting two men kissing can be sold after mayor of Rio de Janeiro attempted to ban it
- Sep 8 Cargo ship Golden Ray catches fire and capsizes in St Simons Sound, off coast of Georgia, trapping four crew inside
Event of Interest
Sep 8 Estimated 1 million attend a mass held by Pope Francis near Antananarivo, Madagascar
- Sep 8 Typhoon Faxai makes landfall near Tokyo, Japan, with winds of up to 210km/h (130mph)
- Sep 9 Australia experiences its earliest and most severe start to the fire season after fighting dozens of bushfires in Queensland and New South Wales
- Sep 9 Nigerian government says it will repatriate 600 people from South Africa after two people killed in wave of xenophobic violence in Johannesburg
Event of Interest
Sep 9 Poet John Milton's own copy of Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623 has survived with his annotations according to scholar Jason Scott-Warren in Philadelphia library, could be world's most important modern literary discovery
- Sep 9 Scientist reveal evidence of humans earliest milk consumption, 6,000 years ago from the dental plaque of teeth of prehistoric farmers from Britain
- Sep 10 Bolivian wildfires have destroyed two million hectares (almost five million acres), of forest and grassland since August according to College of Biologists in La Paz
- Sep 10 Iranian woman Sahar Khodayari dies after setting herself on fire during her trial, for entering a stadium disguised as a man in Tehran
- Sep 10 Malaysia's National Disaster Management Agency delivers half a million face masks to Sarawak state, after more than 930,000 hectares (about 2.3 million acres) burnt in Indonesia cause hazardous levels of air pollution
Historic Publication
Sep 10 Novelist Margaret Atwood publishes "The Testaments", her follow-up to "The Handmaid's Tale"
- Sep 10 US President Donald Trump fires his third national security adviser John Bolton
- Sep 11 Water detected for first time on planet outside out solar system, on exoplanet K2-18b 110 light-years away, in findings published in "Nature Astronomy"
- Sep 14 Drone attack on Abqaiq oil plant in Saudi Arabia takes out half of country's oil production and 5% of the world's. Yemen Houthi rebels claim responsibility.
- Sep 15 Hong Kong police use water cannons and tear gas attempting to disperse thousands of protesters outside the British embassy, as protests continue in the city
- Sep 15 UK PM Boris Johnson compares himself to Marvel Hulk character in newspaper interview "The madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets" about UK exiting the EU
- Sep 16 50,000 workers at General Motors go on strike in the US over pay and factory closings
- Sep 16 Guantánamo Bay is the world's most expensive prison at US$13 million per prisoner according to investigation by "The New York Times"
- Sep 16 Personal data on every Ecuadorean citizen discovered online on unsecured cloud server
- Sep 16 Study puts prices on value of "thoughts and prayers", average Christian willing to pay US$4 for a prayer, average atheists would pay US$3 not to receive one, published in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"
- Sep 17 Indonesia raises the female marriage age to 19, in line with males, to curb child marriages
Event of Interest
Sep 17 Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg tells US Congress "I know you are trying but just not hard enough. Sorry.”
- Sep 18 Boarding school fire kills at least 27 in Monrovia, Liberia
- Sep 18 Indian government proposes a ban on e-cigarettes
Election of Interest
Sep 18 Photo of Canadian PM Justin Trudeau wearing brownface in 2001 emerges during Canadian election campiagn
- Sep 18 Saudi Arabia's Defense Ministry says Iran was to blame for drone attack on Saudi oil facilities
Election of Interest
Sep 18 Second Israel General Election in five months results in another deadlock between Benny Gantz's Blue and White Party and Likud Party under Benjamin Netanyahu
- Sep 18 US White House bars California and other states from setting their own emission standards
- Sep 19 Likely US drone attack kills at least 30 and injures 28 in Nangarhar Province,, Afghanistan
- Sep 19 North America has lost 3 billion birds (29%) since 1970 according to analysis published in "Science"
- Sep 19 Taliban suicide truck bombing kills 22 and injures 90 at a hospital in Zabul Province, southern Afghanistan
- Sep 19 Tropical Depression Imelda hits southeast Texas and Louisiana prompting widespread evacuations
- Sep 20 Australian PM Scott Morrison welcomed for week-long visit at the White House by US President Donald Trump
- Sep 20 Rare Egyptian political protests take place against corruption in President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's government in Tahrir Square, Cairo and elsewhere
- Sep 20 Researchers for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) propose that aliens may have bugged earths co-orbitals (nearby orbiting rocks) in "The Astronomical Journal"
- Sep 20 Students from 185 countries stage the world's largest-ever protest on climate change culminating in Manhattan rally led by Greta Thunberg
- Sep 20 The MOSAiC expedition, the greatest Arctic research expedition ever, sets sail from Norway, aims to stay trapped in ice for a year to study climate change
- Sep 21 "Queer Eye" star Jonathan Van Ness reveals he is living with HIV and is a sexual abuse survivor, ahead of the publication of his autobiography
- Sep 21 Skies turn red over Jambi province, Indonesia, as worst illegal forest fires since 2015 burn more than 800,000 acres, creating respiratory problems for a million people
Event of Interest
Sep 22 "Howdy, Modi!" US President Donald Trump holds a mass rally for Indian PM Narendra Modi in Houston, Texas
- Sep 22 US President Donald Trump admits he spoke to Ukrainian President about Joe Biden's son, after news a US intelligence officer made an official complaint about the call
- Sep 23 178 year old British travel company Thomas Cook goes into liquidation, stranding 600,000 travellers worldwide, prompting largest postwar repatriation effort by UK government
- Sep 23 Climate activist Greta Thunberg scolds world leaders "How Dare You" for not addressing climate change at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York
- Sep 23 Haitian Senator Jean-Marie Ralph Féthière opens fire hitting a journalist leaving parliament in Port-au-Prince
- Sep 23 Renewed violence in West Papua region, Indonesia, leaves 27 dead in capital Wamena after protesters set fire to buildings over racism claims
- Sep 23 US police officer fired after arresting two six-year-olds at a school on charges of misdemeanour battery in Florida
- Sep 24 5.8 magnitude earthquake in northern Pakistan kills at least 10 and injures 300
Event of Interest
Sep 24 Nancy Pelosi announces formal impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump, arguing that he tried to enlist a foreign power for his own political gain
- Sep 24 Protests outside Indonesian parliament and elsewhere over proposed new laws banning sex before marriage, abortion and insulting the president
Event of Interest
Sep 24 Spain's Supreme Court rules body of dictator Francisco Franco can be removed from state mausoleum, the Valley of the Fallen, to municipal cemetery
- Sep 24 UK Supreme Court rules the suspension of UK parliament for 5 weeks by Boris Johnson's Conservative government was unlawful
- Sep 25 Australia's Capital Territory becomes the 1st state in Australia to legalize recreational marijuana
- Sep 25 Bulgarian economist Kristalina Georgieva named as the new head of the IMF
Event of Interest
Sep 25 Chinese President Xi Jinping opens Beijing's new Daxing International Airport designed by Zaha Hadid
- Sep 25 Hazzaa Al Mansoori becomes first Emirati in space and the first Arab astronaut to travel to the International Space Station, travelling on Russian Soyuz-MS 15 spacecraft
- Sep 25 Oaxaca becomes the second Mexican state to decriminalize abortion, during the first 12 weeks
- Sep 26 Abortion is decriminalized in New South Wales, the last remaining Australian state to do so
- Sep 26 US Income inequality widest for over 50 years, worst in California, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana and New York, according to new census figures
- Sep 26 WHO announces 800,000 children in DR Congo will be vaccinated in nine days in worlds's largest measles epidemic that has taken over 3,500 lives
Event of Interest
Sep 27 US Democrats issue their first subpoena to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in impeachment inquiry
- Sep 28 Hurricane Lorenzo becomes 1st category 5 storm to be recorded so far north and east, 1,420 miles southwest of the Azores
- Sep 29 Houthi rebels from Yemen claim they have killed 500 Saudi soldiers and captured 2,000 along with military a convoy in Najran region, Saudi Arabia
Election of Interest
Sep 29 In Austrian general election, conservative People's Party led by Sebastian Kurz the leading party with 37.5% of the vote
- Sep 30 315 billion-tonne iceberg named D28 calves from Amery ice shelf, Antarctica
Deaths in History
Robert Mugabe (1924-2019)
Sep 6 Zimbabwean revolutionary, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (1980-87) and 1st black President of Zimbabwe (1988-2017), dies at 95
T. Boone Pickens (1928-2019)
Sep 11 American business person and oil tycoon (Shamrock, Mesa Petroleum Co) known as the 'Oracle of Oil', dies at 91
- Sep 16 Peter Stormonth Darling, Scottish investment banker (Mercury Asset Management Group - largest fund-management in the UK), dies at 86
- Sep 19 Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, 2nd President of Tunisia (1987-2011). dies in exile at 83
- Sep 20 Su Beng [Lim Tiau-hui], Taiwanese revolutionary, 'Father of Taiwanese Independence' (Taiwan’s 400-Year History), dies at 100
- Sep 21 Shuping Wang, Chinese doctor who exposed China's HIV crisis, dies at 59
Jacques Chirac (1932-2019)
Sep 26 President of France (1995-2007) and Prime Minister of France (1974-76, 1986-88), dies at 86
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